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Biography

Michael C. Jackson, born 1951, is Professor of
Management Systems and former Dean of Hull University Business
School. After studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford
University, he spent 4 years in the civil service before returning
to academic life. He has since studied and taught at Lancaster,
Warwick, Lincoln and Hull Universities, being appointed a full
professor in 1989. Professor Jackson is a past President of the UK
Systems Society, the International Federation for Systems Research
and the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He has also
served on the Council of the Operational Research Society. He is a
Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Management
Institute, The Cybernetic Society and the Operational Research
Society. He is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of
Technology (New Delhi) and an Honorary Professor at the Universidad
Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.

Qualifications

BA (Oxon), Ph.D (Hull), CITP, MA (Lancs), FBCS FORS, FCMI
F.Cyb.S

Teaching

Research

Professor Jackson is pre-eminent as a
researcher in systems and management science, having written 4
highly regarded books and edited 6 others. He has published over 70
articles in refereed journals including Journal of Management
Studies, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society,
Systems Research, Systems Practice, SCOS, Journal of Information
Systems, International Journal of General Systems, International
Journal of Information Management, Kybernetes, System Dynamics
Review, Organization. Professor Jackson edits Systems Research and
Behavioral Science, John Wiley, and is on the editorial board of 5
other journals. He has, over the past 3 years, delivered plenary
addresses at 18 international conferences. In 1997 he was an
Erskine Scholar at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Professor Jackson has undertaken many consultancy engagements with
outside organisations, both profit and non-profit. These
assignments have included the introduction of systems thinking into
British Telecom at the senior management level; the development of
IT strategy with PA Management Consulting Group; a national project
to design evaluation systems for Councils for Voluntary Service;
evaluation work with Humberside Training and Enterprise Council;
and a study of organisational change in prisons.

Professor Jackson has received
research grants from the EPSRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, British
Council, The European Union, from organisations in the private and
public sector, etc. He has supervised 17 PhD students to successful
completion, examined 15 others including from Norway, South Africa,
Hong Kong and India, and has conducted PhD workshops in Australia
and South Africa. He has been referee of research grant
applications for the ESRC, EPSRC and South Africa Foundation for
Research Development. He has refereed book proposals for Wiley,
Plenum, Pitman, Sage and Routledge, and papers for numerous
journals.

Publications

Selected publications

Professor Mike Jackson, (2010) The multi-methodology debate: a
response to Harwood (vol 61) Journal of
the Operational Research Society

Professor Mike Jackson, (2010) Response and
comments on the special issue: ‘Systems methodology and social
development: a global conversation in China’ (vol 27, pp 241-244)
Systems Research and Behavioural
Science

Professor Mike Jackson, (2010) Reflections on
the development and contribution of critical systems thinking and
practice (vol 27, pp 133-139) Systems Research and Behavioural Science